Benefits of a subacute care unit in the rehabilitation of frail dependent older adults
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Subacute Care Units are defined as an institutional resource with hospital beds where once a patient overcomes the acute phase of a disease, it is
possible for him to undergo a rehabilitation treatment with the objective of achieving functional recovery and reintegration into the community.
The purpose of this paper was to carry out a quasi-experimental before and after study where the subjects serve as their own controls, in order
to describe the baseline characteristics of the patients admitted to the subacute care unit with rehabilitation objectives, as well as their functional
gain after the intervention, measured as the difference between the Barthel index at discharge (final value) and admission to the EMU (baseline
value). For this, 122 people were included, obtaining as main results a positive functional gain of 40 points (p <0.001) and an efficiency parameter
(functional gain / days of hospitalization) of 1.18, considering the results obtained according to the literature as effective and efficient.
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